Re: Cosmic Rice

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 12:23 AM 2/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>It would be so much easier to just expose the seed to 50 Rad and get the same
>result.

How could anyone not agree with this statement? Sending the seeds into
space via satellite or aloft in a high altitude ballon to be irradiated is
ridiculous - like putting in a thumb tack with a sledge hammer. Leave to a
government to seek out the most awkward and inefficient way to do something
and then spare no expense implementing it.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu

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